Word: visa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevada's Republican Senator George Malone has been granted a visa to Russia. Among those who have applied for visas are Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, Alabama's Democratic Senator John Sparkman, and Connecticut's Republican Senator William Purtell ("I hope to get the feel of the country"). Seriously considering trips to Russia are Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Henry Dworshak of Idaho and Democratic Senator J. Allen Frear of Delaware. Also mulling over the idea: Kentucky's grand old pro, Democrat Alben W. Barkley...
...inevitable, however, that one man would already have his bags virtually packed: Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, toting his presidential ambitions around the world, is getting ready to attend the Interparliamentary Union meeting at Helsinki, Finland, then make the Moscow trek. He already has his visa in hand...
...fact that the Soviet ambassador is the Georgy Zarubin of World's Fair days. It may also have been helped by the fact that Violinist Yehudi Menuhin met Oistrakh in London and began his own correspondence with the State Department in the hope of winning his colleague a visa to the U.S. When Schang asked about visas, he said, the State Department "encouraged" him. Last week, Pianist Gilels told the embassy he was willing to come. Schang took an option on Carnegie Hall for three dates late in September...
...bill become law without his signature. He would not sign-but did not veto-a bill granting permanent U.S. residence to Aniceto M. Sparagna, 42, an apostate Italian priest. Sparagna used false affidavits (claiming a priestly assignment in New York) to get a religious-entry U.S. visa in 1950, later married and began preaching at the Church of Christ in West Collingswood...
...teleprinter in their own offices. But reporters permanently assigned to Russia still found their movements carefully held in check. And most of the newcomers were reporting little that was new. Even Columnist Stewart Alsop, who arrived in Russia last week after "writing personally" to Khrushchev for a visa was forced into an unusually humble admission. Wrote Alsop: "Alas, after fully four days in Russia, this reporter still does not know the truth about this strange country...